cindy vanderheiden disappears in 1988 after last being seen with shermantine and herzog. in 1999, shermantine and herzog are arrested after dna evidence links them to wheeler and vanderheiden. their trials are moved to santa clara. shermantine is convicted of four murders in february of 2001. the two drift ares, plus the -- drifters plus the two women. in october, herzog is convicted of three murders and an accessory in vanderheiden's death. his convictions are overturned on a technicality three years later. and in 2010, herzog is released on parole. he moves into a trailer on the grounds of the high-desert state prison where he is found hanged to death in an apparent suicide in january of this year. he had apparently learned of shermantine's agreement to reveal the location of the pair's victims. >> herzog's murder convictions were overturned when an appeals court rules that -- ruled that police coerced him into talking about the killings. herzog accepted a 14 year sentence with credit for time served. >> continuing coverage of the search for victims of the "speed freak

one of their victims was 24- year-old cyndi vanderheiden. in this exchange we are about to hear herzog expresses remorse. >> vanderheiden was killed more than 20 years ago. it wasn't until earlier this month authorities found her remains in a remote area of calveras county. other human remains have been unearthed san joaquin county. shermantine is on death row in san quentin right now. shermantine gave another interview. he said he knows where other victims are buried. also he says he's work on drawing more maps. pinpointing the locations of the burial sites. >> we will keep following this story for you throughout the morning. there is also more video of interrogation to examine. we'll bring you more details throughout the week. >>> palo alto police are increasing patrols following a string of burglars. paul chambers joins us and tells us thieves are not just targeting homes but apartments as well. >> reporter: one of the apartment complexes right here on grant avenue. three units all in the same floor were broken into. now if we can take a

. >> cindy vanderheiden's remains were found and identified. the remains of wheeler were also found there. another search in linden turned up bone fragments. herzog killed himself last month after learning about it. now we're digging through 10 hours of tape coming up at the 10:00 news. you'll hear why herzog did not turn in his friend. >>> we've been hearing about a rash of shootings in oakland for days. when gun shots rang out in east oakland today, it brought out the reality of street violence. now a mother who moved her baby out of the way just in time. rita? >> unless you live in a killing zone it's hard to imagine how fragile life can be. a hot friday at high noon in a neighborhood handy man known as bo dean was snoozing in this chair when suddenly men with guns yelled at him to wake up. he ran and the gunfire began. >> pop, pop! they emptied them. >> reporter: those are tears of relief, not grief. tamara's one-year-old daughter, amera, was not hit. >> she's just started walking. she was standing at the screen door. something said pull he

details on how wesley sherman tine raped and killed vanderheiden.s later convicted in vanderheiden's death and two other other murders. . >>> the reasoning by gavin newsom's proposal. >> we just got back from sacramento where we track down a former lieutenant governor who told us he doesn't think newsom's proposal will work at all. >> reporter: inside the state capital is office of lieutenant governor, second in command of california. gavin newsom in san luis obispo today told them that we should dissolve the lieutenant govern's office as we know it. when arnold schwarzenegger was in office, he slashed the budget of the lieutenant governor's pay at the time. >> a lieutenant governor provides one additional person to speak for california. >> u.s. congressman says he disagrees with newsom. he told the editorial board in order to get the governor to delegate more responsibilities to the governor's office, he proposed they run on a single ticket during election year. he says the idea will not work. >> you could ask vice presidents how much responsibilit

including the murder of 25-year- old cyndi vanderheiden. they were friends with vanderheiden and it was shermantine that killed her. herzog was there but didn't do anything. >>> vanderheiden was killed more than 20 years ago. it wasn't until earlier this month that authorities found her remains in a remote county of calibers are -- calibers are county. they found the remains after shermantine provided authorities of a map where some of the victims are buried. shore maintain said he -- shermantine said he didn't kill the victims herzog did. shermantine is on death row in san quentin. just over the weekend wesley shermantine gave a new interview to the stockton record. that that interview he remembers where many of the other victims are buried. >> we will continue to follow this story throughout the morning. there is also more video of the interrogation to examine. we will bring you new details throughout the week. >>> in overnight news the man is fighting for his life after being shot in oakland. police were called to an empty lot at 35th an

vanderheiden lived in of area and disappeared in 1988. authorities are working to identify another set of remains discovered in the same area. >> at 3:55 p.m. this afternoon whitney houston was pronounced dead at the beverly hilton hotel. >> sad news for the music industry as family, friends and fans mourn the sudden loss of singer whitney houston. ♪ oh, say does that star-spangled banger yet wave ♪ houston was none for her powerful port st. lucies, such as this one at super bowl xxv. the singer was found dead this afternoon. she was 48 years old. coming up in about four minutes we'll have a live report from los angeles on how the music industry is handling the loss. >>> not a random attack, that is what pleasant hill police are saying tonight about that city's first homicide in two years. ktvu's john sasaki talked to investigators about a possible motive in last night's deadly drive-by shooting. >> reporter: a quiet suburban neighborhood in pleasant hill looks peaceful enough, but last night it was anything but. police swarmed the are ar

investigators believe that those were the bones of a woman last seen in 1998, her name was cindy vanderheiden. police will wait for more information about michaela garrett before they take action on shermantine's claims >>> we saw rain out there today, and we could see more into the overnight hours. we'll talk more about that coming up. >>> coming up , a san francisco mansion has some dark secrets. we'll take you inside and show you what happened there. >>> if you're dying to get your hands on the new ipad 3, gabe slate tells us when it might go on sale. >>> coming up later in this broadcast, the bay area kid, another great night versus kobe bryant, jeremy lin in new york. and also tiger woods in pretty good position thea the at&t. pete, did you forget yours? me pete, me use pen! (laughter) sorry i'm late, i was in the 16th century looking for pete's pen. (laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, and she wants her pen back! ok, alright, well. i just got one. so... yeah, you've got a little... yep, i can feel the wet patch. don't look at it. when it's on your min

>> i wouldn't want to repeat it on the radio. >> john vanderheiden, appreciate you calling in to us herer they think israel will attack iran. the candid comments. 70 seconds away. >>> if it's interesting and happening right now, you're about to see it. rapid fire beginning with this. there is no evidence israel will attack iran, at least according to one of the men in charge of america's security. >> if we don't believe at this point that they have made a decision to do that. what could have given rise to this is simply the fact that the weather becomes better obviously in the spring and that could be conducive to an attack. >>> according to reports, defense secretary leon panetta had suggested israel might attack iran this spring. he has since denied that. >>> speaking of iran, the corrupt's president says he is willing to resume talks over tehran's nuclear program. that offer came in mahmoud ahmadinejad's letter to the european union. the number of interracial or interethnic marriages in the u.s. has more than doubled to 8%. that is a record according to a pew research center study jus

but they say the remains found her are likely of that cindy vanderheiden seen her. they were part of a crew called the speed freak killers suspected of killing more than 20 people during the '80s and '90s. the property and the focus is that of serman teen's parents -- shermantine's parents. >>> new details about an assault on stanford's campus this weekend. police have released a sketch of the suspect. this man you're looking at broke into a soresort house early -- sority house. they do not believe the same suspect assaulted a different woman that same night. >>> and the berkeley police officer that was rammed with a car while chasing a drug suspect. he is out of the hospital tonight. yesterday, police were following the suspect in castro valley. moore rammed one of the officers with his car. another cop on scene shot moore who's now recovering from his injuries. during their investigation, police found a half pound of cocaine they believe belonged to moore >>> the man suspected of shooting a federal agent was in court today. he was assigned a public defender. he is

dental records confirmed cindy vanderheiden's remains were found on the same day at a different site in calaveras county. she disappeared in 1998. investigators close to the case say loren herzog's victims fit a similar description. in 1985, joanne's mother reported her daughter missing in stockton. she was 16 years old. gayle marx disappeared in 1988 in stockton. and vanessa smith was last seen wearing a light blue dress with several buttons. in 1997, she went for a walk and never returned home. it has not been confirmed that these women are part of the investigation, but they were reported missing during that time. >> stay with kron4 as we continue to cover developments at the dig site for more possible victims of the "speed freak killers". and you can go to confrom our.com to watch today's news conference. >>> the victim of an antioch home invasion manages to turn the tables on his attacker. the homeowner was resting with his son when a would-be armed robber broke in. am after a struggle, the man managed to get the gun away from the intruder and shot the intruder three times. the

the remains belong to cyndi vanderheiden. >>> police released an age progression photo of a woman who went missing. she was 22 when she disappeared in 1993. she was hospitalized after a mental break down. investigators think she may have had another mental break down and left home on her own. >>> he faces five felony counts in connection with a tuesday night plast. investigators say he was manufacturing drugs when the explosion occurred. she received minor injuries. the boy remains in the hospital tonight. >>> several streets in san francisco's financial direct reopened after an underground fire in a pg&e vault. smoke was reported at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. officials say the fire was sparked by a failed secondary fuse in the vault. no one was injured but customers will have brief outages as they make repairs. >>> five tents went up as part of the occupy cal movement. >> i don't see anybody camping. >> i don't either. >> okay. answer right the. >> this was the scene in berkeley. police were asking protesters to take down their tents, reminding them it is not allowed. police told us t

remains at another site found last week are those of cyndi vanderheiden.ared in 1998. >>> well, a small earthquake rattling the north bay last night. you may have felt it. a magnitude 4.3 quake hit around 9:00 right near the geysers about 90 miles north of san francisco. no reports of damage or injuries. hundreds reported feeling the quake some as far away as here in san francisco. >>> we have a wet start to your workweek if you have been outside. you might see a little rain on your car. >> a little wiper action, not too bad but more of the same. >> i like it like this. i love it like this. haven't had enough of this, this year but it looks like finally getting more showers around the bay area. most of that just hit-and-miss showers right now. it's going to be scattered throughout the day so even if you head out and it's dry one minute you may see some showers rolling in the next and this is what we're seeing now on our high-def doppler radar. some of that moisture moving in toward the marin headlands also into san francisco, scattered showers there and al

. >> deputies say the remains could belong to cindy vanderheiden who went missing in 1998. shermantine began talking after his killing partner committed suicide last month. shermantine also says herzog was responsible for the abduction of michaela garecht of hayward who disappeared in 1988. the search resumes today. >> los angeles police are on the lookout for a man convicted of threatening to kill madonna. 54-year-old robert dewey hopkins walked out of the metropolitan state hospital about a week ago. described as highly psychotic and he was admitted to the hospital last year after serving a 10-year prison sentence for stalking madonna. >> let's get a look at the forecast for today. meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning to you. you made to the friday, you got the weekend just around the corner. we're going to see nice weather for the first part of the weekend. showers on the way come sunday into monday. and we're looking toward a wet pattern. so enjoy the sunshine. temperatures are running a little on the cool side. you're at 50 degrees in san mat mateo, and you'r

remains found at another site in calaveras county last week are identify as though of cyndi vanderheiden back in 1998. >>> san jose police are trying to fine the suspects who attacked a man and killed his dog. this all happened near winchester boulevard and colonial way on saturday afternoon. the "mercury news" reports that a 32-year-old man was jumped by three men who asked if he was in a gang. during that attack the victim's 7-pound yorkshire terrier was killed. >>> san francisco burglars beat two dogs and stole puppies. the suspect then tried to settle puppies back to the owner. the home on cameron way in the bayview district was robbed last week. a laptop, tv and puppies were taken. if you have information, call the bayview police station. >>> 6:40. some high school students in concord are demanding more restrooms there. it's happening at the mount diablo high school. some students are putting signs that say y is this bathroom locked on doors of the restrooms closed since last year? the principal won't say why she closed some restrooms but it may have something to do with graffiti, a

. >> reporter: investigators found the skull of another victim. 25-year-old cyndi vanderheiden on fridaylla says he spoke with her family today. >> these folks are happy because bones have been found up there. loved ones. >> reporter: padilla did strike a deal with shermantine to pay him $33,000 towards this information. sheriff's investigators say they are well aware of the second well site. but they are focusing all of their energy on the current one, where they will return to dig tomorrow morning. >> stephanie, thank you. $33,000 for that map. >>> on air and online, stay with us for continuing coverage on this story, on nbcbayarea.com. we have video of the dig site, as well as more interviews from the bounty hunter, search remains found. >>> no tsunami warning but plenty of rattled nerves tonight following a 6.0 earthquake. it shook the coast of oregon. but it was felt here in the bay area. it was about 160 miles west of coos bay. there was no reports of damage or injuries. and those who felt the shaking described it as a weak jolt. >>> a saratoga business man faces four years in coun

results confirm the human remains found in calaveras county are those of murder victims cyndi vanderheiden and shaw veal wheeler. investigators found their bones earlier this month after getting a tip from convicted serial killer wesley shermantine. wesley shermantine and his partner in crime are tied to as many as 20 killings. >>> this morning the contra costa county coroner identified the young man killed last night in a shooting in richmond. he is 25-year-old renee garcia of pinole. just before 7:00 last night, officers received numerous calls about shots fired at shields reed park. they found the area littered with shell casings. garcia was pronounced dead at the scene. police are asking for the public's help to solve the case. >>> arraignment is scheduled for 2:00 today for a man accused of beating a berkeley hills homeowner to death. police believe the 23-year-old suspect jordan dewitt is mentally ill. they say he killed 67-year-old peter succor outside the victim's home near grizzly peak boulevard saturday night. officers have released a time line of the events in an attempt to defe

the remains of 25-year-old cindy vanderheiden and 16-year- old sherrell wheeler were found earlier this month after wesley shermantine gave a map to police. shermantine also told the reporter he knows where additional victims are buried. >>> and tonight the renters of nearly half a dozen homes in the east bay are learning they were the victims of an elaborate foreclosure scam. even though the landlord is behind bars, we discovered the list of victims could keep growing. >> reporter: the contra costa district attorney says they know of five victims and believe there could be as many as 20. alfonso salazar faces nine felony counts ranging from burglary to perjury in what prosecutors call a sophisticated rental scam. >> they are claiming ownership entitlement they have no ownership right over and they are renting them out by posting an ad in craigslist and in the people are paying, two, three, four, up to six thousand dollars to rent the properties. >> reporter: salazar was a licensed real estate agent until last year. he worked for country wide mortgage. >> he knew how to talk the talk be

interview he described the time where he and his accomplice, wes shermantine, raped and killed cindi vanderheiden. her remains were discovered in calaveras county earlier this month. >> i knew it was wes. i started to get out -- was just like slashing and hacking -- >> herzog was convicted of three murders. the convictions were later overturned on a technicality. he committed suicide in january. stay with ktvu for continuing developments in the speed freak killer's case. ktvu's amber lee is continuing to look through the 19 hours of tape we obtained. she will have more details on the interview tomorrow at 5:00, and the 10:00 news. >>> and police are searching for a suspect in a south san francisco neighborhood. earlier today, the officers and s.w.a.t. team searched an apartment, but found nobody inside. police are looking a few doors down from the apartment, searching for a gunman they say opened fire earlier in the day at another location. nobody was hurt had, and so far no arrests have been made. >>> and today marks two years since employees have been locked out of their jobs at an east bay cou

chevy wheeler and cyndi vanderheiden. meanwhile, bounty hunter leonard padilla and his investigators say they have received information about another pair of wells in linden that wesley shermantine says contain even more murder victims. >> this is just the tip of the iceburg and you need to check both of these wells. >> shermantine alleges there are at least a dozen bodies in one of those wells. he says there's one body in a third well near a tv tower. >>> 4:38. the reward is more than $22,000 to find the vandals though trashed a richmond school. congressman george miller toured nystrom elementary school yesterday. it's being cleaned up after it suffered a million dollars in damage earlier this month. the building was just about ready to open to students. now that's not going to happen for several more weeks. >> this is a tragedy and it's a crime against the children in this community and it's a crime against our community. >> this is what the building looked like just a couple of weeks ago right after the vandals trashed

and 25-year-old cyndi vanderheiden disappeared in 1998. the woman fannished on a night when she was shooting pool with shermantine and lauren herzog, in linden. >>> you can stay with us for continuing coverage of this story, on nbcbayarea.com, we have video of the gravesite, as well as more interviews from that bounty hunter. just search, remains found. >>> president obama is back in california. but back in washington, there was a rare agreement late tonight in a bitterly-divided congress that would likely save you some money. the house and senate agreed to extend the 2% payroll tax cut. and extra benefits for the unemployed. it's a win for president obama, who says the typical american family will see an extra $40 in every paycheck this year. the president says he will sign the tax cut extension, as soon as it passes. it impacts 160 million people across the country. >>> mr. obama is in l.a., as part of a three-day west coast fund-raising trip. tonight, he dined at a fund-raiser in hollywood, headlined by the foo fighters. and spoke at an

he describes the night his accomplice sexually assaulted and killed cyndi vanderheiden. officials continue to search for more bodies based on a map recently drawn by shermantine. shermantine is on death row for murder. stay with ktvu for continuing developments in e killers case. amber lee is going through the 19 hours of tape we obtained. she'll have more on the police interview tomorrow on ktvu channel 2 news at 5 and the 10:00 news. >> a judge with a former boss led to a shooting and then hours long stand' off in a south san francisco neighborhood today. john sasaki was there this afternoon and tells us how it all came to an end. >> reporter: officers from across san mateo county seemed to be everywhere. police told residents to shelter in place. >> i was shocked, we don't have too much happening in our neighborhood. >> reporter: it started on canal street. men went to the business where valasquez was recently fired to confront them. they started shooting. >> two shots were possibly fired. no one was injured. >> reporter: the four men sped away from the scene. s.w.a.t

the remains of cyndi vanderheiden have been identified. a woman's ring found today may help close another cold case. >> we believe the jewelry will help us, i believe, there may be initials. >> reporter: it remains unclear how many victims may be found here. >> we encourage people to call if they think they are missing love ones. >> reporter: the search has a long way to go. several days at least. they will search late into tonight, they are trying to beat the rain. and they are three additional wells on this property that may be searched as well. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> authorities say wesley shermantine killed several people between 1984 and 1999. they were arrested in 1999. wesley shermantine was sentenced to death. intron 4 a court ruled his confession was coerced and was on patrol in 2010. he committed suicide. thursday and friday of last week, searchers found two sets of human remains, believed to be victims of that pair. yesterday more remains were found. >>> there has been speculation the searches for human remains

dental records show the skull belongs to this woman, 25-year- old cyndi vanderheiden. authorities were led to that spot by the killer, wesley shermantine. investigators believe a second set of remains found in the same location belong to 16-year- old shevell wheeler. >>> a search for armed robbery suspects continues in vallejo after a standoff led to a house fire. ktvu talked to neighbors. >> reporter: this man returned to the home he owns on castlewood drive after a police standoff and fire. he says his tenants are devastated. >> they lost everything. >> reporter: it started around 2:00 yesterday. police were looking for six armed suspects wanted for robbing and beating a man who had responded to a bogus craigslist ad. officers reported seeing one of the suspects walk into this home and police responded. there was then a standoff. the man insists his tenants have no connection. >> they were not home. they're working people. >> reporter: did they say they knew who these people were? >> no. >> reporter: what did they say? >> they said they don't know anything. >> report

. >> deputies say the remains could belong to cindy vanderheiden who went missing in 1998.ntine began talking to authorities after his killing partner, loren herzog, committed suicide. he said that herzog was responsible for the abduction of michaela garecht. >> marin county health officials investigating two cases of a rare brain disorder similar to mad cow disease. 59-year-old eileen shaw contracted what health officials believe is kruts felts disease. she died. her husband tells us once she got sick she deteriorated quickly. in a statement they ruled out the string of cjd linked to mad cow disease. this is based upon results that a national reference laboratory. furthermore, we have no evidence that suggests casual linkage between the suspect cases nor is there evidence to suggest a risk to food supply. >> 5:49. was it the state of the city or state of the city's retirement benefits, last night san jose mayor chuck reed spent a chunk of time talking about the city's retirement costs. this coming on the heels of nbc bay area investigation questioning whether he used phony

chevy wheeler and cyndi vanderheiden. the bounty hunter at the center of the search turned up at the dig site today. andrea menniti with what happened there. >> reporter: bounty hunter leonard padilla and his investigator say they have received new information about the pair of other wells that convicted killer wesley shermantine contain murder victims. >> he said this is just the tip of the iceberg and you need to check both of these wells. >> reporter: the team says shermantine tells them the so- called boneyard is about 100 yards from this mobile home which sits just east of the first well dig site. the pair says that's the well where investigators will find at least a dozen bodies. the third site the investigator says is near this television tower about 300 feet from a pond. shermantine told him a single victim is buried in that well. the details came during a phone conversation about getting paid for handing over information that led to a pair of bodies in calaveras county. after seeing coverage of the digs on tv, sh

chevy wheeler and cyndi vanderheiden were found ain the "speed freak" killers case.ve received new information about another pair of wells in linden that shermantine says contain even more murder victims. shermantine alleges that there are at least a dozen bodies in one of those wells and he says there's one body in a third well near a tv tower. >>> a san jose woman is due in court today accused of driving the getaway car for her 15-year- old son who is suspected of stabbing a teen. margaret suazo was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and her son was taken into custody as a juvenile. police say that last thursday, suazo drove her son to glen furth drive on the city's east side, specifically to look for a 13-year-old boy. well, they spotted him and the two boys exchanged gang-related words. investigators say suazo's son then jumped out of the car, tackled the 13-year-old and stabbed him. police are also looking into the possibility of a second juvenile suspect. >>> two western journalists were killed today in syria when rockets hit the home they were in. one v

deputies say she is 25-year-old cyndi vanderheiden.he lived in the area and disappeared back in 1998. >>> fans are mourning the death of lend dare singer withknee houston this morning. she was found dead last night in her l.a. hotel room. reporter casey is live in los angeles. what is the latest in this investigation? >> reporter: claudine, good morning to you. an autopsy must be scheduled. we are stabbing outside of the l.a. county coroners office where that will happen. officials are telling fox news channel today that the scheduling of it has not happened. but they do confirm they have taken custody of whitney houston's body. one of our producers just getting off the phone with the coroners office and they said they didn't expect any new information to be released today. so it is appearing the autopsy might not even happen but could happen first thing tomorrow. remember it would take weeks before any kind of box cool reports -- toxicology reports would come back. let me run you through the timeline. 3:23 california time is when the

. >> the remains of vanderheiden and weeden were found.says those are the remains of herzog's victims. herzog killed himself last month when he started revealing the locations of the bodies. >>> a state gop convention is about to get under way. republicans kicked off their annual meeting yesterday. stay with ktvu mornings on 2 ahead at 9:45 we'll go live to ktvu allie rasmus for more on what's happening this morning including the current and tomorrower presidential candidates expected to show up today. governor brown remains in washington, d.c. this weekend. our washington, d.c. newsroom caught up with the governor after he left the meeting with president obama. >> the president he's all fired up. extremely knowledgeable. very impressed with the way he understands this government from top to bottom. >> governor brown joined a group of other democratic governors at the white house for that closed door session with president obama. this weekend the governor is expected to meet with health and human services secretary kathleen. the governor w